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Never Too Old to Serve

By Christopher Orlet on 1.4.08 @ 12:07AM

High tax cities bring back indentured servitude -- seriously.

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Speaking of which, Granny Davison collects $620 a month in Social Security and pays $12,000 a year in property taxes and has been forced to take a reverse mortgage to pay her bills. And yet the problem, to hear Greenburgh officials talk, is that the seniors are too idle.

Officials do admit one problem with tax-workoff program. There is simply not enough money in the budget to put to work every oldster who cannot afford to pay his or her taxes.

In Boulder County, Colorado, there are 250 seniors signed up for the 100 available positions. That means 150 seniors will have to sell their homes in order that 150 vigorous, young, taxpaying upper-middle-class couples can move in, an outcome that no doubt suits Boulder County just fine. (I suspect the Boulder County and Greenburgh government officials have voted themselves nice retirement packages so they will never have to face such a similar predicament.)

For now the government will put Granny Davison to work answering phones or raking leaves or some other make-work task. God forbid that these towns and counties should consider lowering taxes.

And God forbid Granny Davison should live another ten years and lose her hearing or her sight. What position would the town officials find for her then? Doormat?

Christopher Orlet is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator online.

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Taxes, Social Security, Law

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Christopher Orlet writes every Thursday from St. Louis.

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